International Migration Review
Call for Book Review Essays
The International Migration Review (IMR) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal created to encourage and facilitate the study of all aspects of international migration. Established in 1964, IMR is widely regarded as the leading scholarly journal in the field of international migration, ethnic group relations and refugee movements. It represents the single most comprehensive forum devoted exclusively to the analysis and review of international migration.
Direct questions to the IMR Editorial Office at [email protected].
Editor
Dr. Jamie Winders is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She was appointed editor of the International Migration Review, starting November 2017. Dr. Winders specializes in cultural and social geography and international migration. She co-edited The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography and published Nashville in the New Millennium: Immigrant Settlement, Urban Transformation, and Social Belonging with Russell Sage in 2013. She holds a PhD from the University of Kentucky.
Publishers may send books for review to Dr. Winders at the following address:
Jamie Winders
Department of Geography
144 Eggers Hall
The Maxwell School
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244
Associate Editors
Pieter Bevelander is professor of International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) in the Department of Global Political Studies and Director of Malmö Institute of Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM) at Malmö University, Sweden. His main research field is international migration and different aspects of immigrant integration as well the reactions of natives towards immigrants and minorities. His latest research contains the socioeconomic and political impacts of citizenship ascension of immigrants and minorities in host societies and the attitudes of the native population on immigrants and other minority groups. He holds a PhD in economic history from the University of Lund, Sweden.
Marc Helbling is full professor for the Department of Sociology and the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) at the University of Mannheim and a Research Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. His research centers on immigration and citizenship policies, nationalism, national identities, xenophobia/islamophobia, and right-wing populism. His work has appeared in political science and sociology journals, including IMR. Marc edited the volume, Islamophobia in the West, and co-authored Political Conflict in Western Europe.
Amy Hsin is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at Queens College, City University of New York. She has recently completed a study on the experiences of immigrant students at different City University of New York campuses, incorporating analysis of administrative data on undocumented college students in NYC and in-depth interviews of over 100 undocumented youth and their families. Her research interests include the impact of policing practices on Black/Latino and undocumented youth, the causes and consequences of Asian American achievement, and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients.
Erik Vickstrom is Senior Demographer and Group Lead for Demographic and Decennial Research at the U.S. Census Bureau’s Center for Economic Studies and Research Fellow at IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. His research has focused on the configurations and consequences of legal status of African migrants in Europe, the integration of the second generation in Spain, the contributions of emigrant communities to their origin countries, and the measurement of linguistic skills. In addition to his research, Erik has worked extensively overseas on statistical capacity-building efforts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean, was one of the principal organizers of OECD’s first International Forum on Migration Statistics, and led the revision of the OECD’s Database on Immigrants in OECD Countries (DIOC).
Nathalie Williams is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on migration patterns, during periods of armed conflict, natural disasters and climate change, and social change. Her work considers why even during periods of intense conflict or drastic environmental change, many, if not most, people do not migrate. She has pioneered new data collection strategies, including using mobile phone call records to track migration and local mobility after violent events and natural disasters.